Comment 8 for bug 1959054

I've now got a branch on salsa [1] with a proposal for a fix which I've tested against a few affected packages in a few different environments. The debhelper test suite still passes, and overall I'm *reasonably* happy with it, but I still need to write up a proper explanation of why I've changed what I've changed.

If anyone wants to play with a test build of the patched debian version of the package (note: not one with the ubuntu delta; I need to do another rebase for that), you can find some packages in this PPA [2]. I'll try and get this written up and proposed (both upstream and here) shortly.

[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/waveform/debhelper/-/commits/fix-restart

[2]: https://launchpad.net/~waveform/+archive/ubuntu/debhelper